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Originally Posted by Preds
Expanding the playoffs has MAJOR negatives, major ones IMO. Shorter season, unbalanced schedule, undeserving teams getting in as the 5 and 6 seeds, potential double headers (which I personally despise). Only plusses is more teams are in in longer. The bad outweighs the good IMO with a 6 team playoff.
I could probably accept an unbalanced, 1 wk shorter schedule with a 6 team playoff, if and only if, the HFA was doubled for the 3 and 4 seeds like I earlier proposed. Without that, I'll remain stanuchly opposed to a 6 team playoff.
IMO, with 4 teams we get a real champion. It's difficult to make the playoffs, and I like it that way. And I say that having missed the playoffs last year, and having the very real potential to miss them this year, despite the fact that in a 6 team format I'd have been in a week or 2 ago. I just don't like the 6 team playoffs (50% of the teams), in a league like this, where I feel the best of the best truly represent the league at the end of the season.
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Shorter season and unbalanced schedule? The actual time of regular season, yes will be shorter, however the games played can remain the same with a double header. Problem fixed. 1 week less of play regular season can be made up with a double header (best during the non-division weeks).
Undeserving teams getting in? Two ways to look at this. (1) Then it shouldn't be a "problem" or threat to the "deserving" teams. or (2) deserving is completely subjective and not a valid argument IMO. If a team sstarts out bad, makes some great moves, and streaks into the playoffs THEN MANAGES TO WIN 3 GAMES IN A ROW... how is that not deserving of being a champion?
Potential double headers? Each team will only have 1 week of double headers, not that big of a deal. As the whole point of this argument it seems as if if you put you best team forward it doesn't matter if it is against 1 or 2 teams. You have a veyr bad week, you lose to 2 teams, you have a mediocre week you lose to maybe 1, you have a great week you beat 2 teams!
So Mike all your "bad" can be fixed or really based on your personal opinion.
I have conceeded home field advanatge for Top 1-4, Top 2, whateve ryou want. Seems like Brian is the one you have to fight for with home field advantage. I think Matt suggested home field advanatge based on differential between wins or we can just say, with the difference in wins counting for 2 or 3 pts each.
So I'll put you down for playoff expansion Mike, you can have all the home field advantage you want that is reasonable.